Left's intolerance a Disappointmint

  Hoosierman's previously reported on the pulling of Disappointmints from the University of Tennessee bookstore shelves because of outrage on the part of some Democrat who can't take a joke. 
  This is the snarky commentary that accompanies the Obamamints on their website:

DISAPPOINTMINTS

From our Tough Love Department comes Disappointmints. Hey, we've been as big a fan of Barack Obama as anyone. But with each compromise for the sake of unity, "Yes we can" looks more like "No he can't." So in the name of Free Speech and Fresh Breath, we're offering Disappointmints. They're delicious little mints packed in a colorful tin that tells our President just how we feel. We're pretty sure he shops here, so we expect he'll get the message. And Big O - Nothing would make us happier than to take Disappointmints off the market!

  When George Bush was president, UNsurprisingly apparently no one complained when the bookstore carried the Bush Embarrassmints.
  Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit was asked to comment for the Daily Mail on the legislator's request to pull their mints because of their "disrespect" to the president. 

Glenn Reynolds, who teaches constitutional law at the University, said: 'Let me make very clear, there is no candy exception to the First Amendment.

'Free speech is free speech. If you make fun of the president in a mint, it is just as much free speech as it is if you make fun of the president in a political cartoon.

'While citizens have the right to express disapproval of a message on a tin can of breath mints, that opinion has more heft when it's coming from a government official.

  The company who makes the mints is a left leaning company but finds the intolerance disappointing. From the Chicago Tribune:

He said his company usually leans liberal. He supported the president, and still likes him. But the company began producing Obama Disappoint-mints after Obama extended the tax cuts of former President George W. Bush.

Shaw said he also offers products with even more sarcasm aimed at conservatives, but never had a problem like the one in Knoxville. The company issued "Embarrass-mints" to mock Bush after the 2004 election, and rechristened the same mint to mock Sarah Palin in 2008.

"I find it strange that an item that merely reflects disappointment has generated so much ire," Shaw said. "… It's very disheartening that this would be the response, that the response would be censorship." 

  Unfortunately intolerance seems to be pretty common these days coming from the left. 
  There's another consequence nationally for the Left's intolerance.
  Maybe Disappointmints are not selling at the University of Tennessee, but from their website, we learn that the little mints are now a hot commodity.
  They're sold out until August 20.